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Jason Peckenpaugh

December 1, 2000
The Office of Personnel Management and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) are teaming up to bring more graduates of historically black colleges to the agency. Under a memorandum of understanding signed Wednesday, OPM and NAFEO will begin a partnership to provide internships, scholarships and other...

November 30, 2000
The shortened presidential transition compounds the challenges that federal managers will face in adjusting to the new administration, according to civil service executives who have weathered transitions before. Current and former executives, speaking at a forum during the Government Technology Leadership Institute (GTLI) in Washington Tuesday, said the abbreviated transition...

November 29, 2000
The FirstGov Web portal should include a complaint box where citizens can lodge complaints with any federal agency, said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in a Nov. 21 letter to the General Services Administration. A single, centralized complaint box would make the submission of an electronic complaint much easier by shifting...

November 29, 2000
The FirstGov Web portal should include a complaint box where citizens can lodge complaints with any federal agency, said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in a Nov. 21 letter to the General Services Administration. A single, centralized complaint box would make the submission of an electronic complaint much easier by shifting...

November 27, 2000
The General Services Administration will not release $5.3 million in transition funds or provide access to its Washington transition office until challenges to the election are resolved, a spokeswoman said Sunday. While Texas Gov. George W. Bush was certified the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes on Sunday, Vice President...

November 27, 2000
The U.S. Air Force will use a new IBM supercomputer to try to track down space junk orbiting the Earth, service officials announced last week. Researchers at the Air Force's Maui Space Surveillance Complex will use the supercomputer to process telescopic images of the more than 9,000 objects circling the...

November 22, 2000
The General Accounting Office has recommended that Congress require the Internal Revenue Service to include cost-benefit information on its collection and enforcement efforts in its annual budget submission. In a new report, "Recommendations to Improve Financial and Operational Management" (GAO-01-42) the GAO builds on its February audit of IRS' fiscal...

November 21, 2000
Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala became the first Clinton administration Cabinet member to announce her post-administration plans over the weekend, confirming that she will become president of the University of Miami next June. Shalala accepted the offer from the university's Board of Trustees on Saturday, culminating a nine-month...

November 21, 2000
The Clinton administration's National Partnership Council honored nine federal agencies and employee unions last week for creating innovative labor-management partnerships. The agencies and unions received the John N. Sturdivant National Partnership Award, which was created in 1995 to recognize labor-management partnerships in the executive branch that have increased union involvement...

November 17, 2000
The U.S. Navy plans to offer a new personal financial management program to service members to help them protect themselves from predatory lenders, Comptroller of the Navy Charles Nemfakos said this week. The program, which is still being designed, will incorporate education on personal financial management into the Navy's training...

Database-level encryption had its origins in the 1990s and early 2000s in response to very basic risks which largely revolved around the theft of servers, backup tapes and other physical-layer assets. As noted in Verizon’s 2014, Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)1, threats today are far more advanced and dangerous.

In order to better understand the current state of external and internal-facing agency workplace applications, Government Business Council (GBC) and Riverbed undertook an in-depth research study of federal employees. Overall, survey findings indicate that federal IT applications still face a gamut of challenges with regard to quality, reliability, and performance management.

PIV- I And Multifactor Authentication: The Best Defense for Federal Government Contractors

This white paper explores NIST SP 800-171 and why compliance is critical to federal government contractors, especially those that work with the Department of Defense, as well as how leveraging PIV-I credentialing with multifactor authentication can be used as a defense against cyberattacks

This research study aims to understand how state and local leaders regard their agency’s innovation efforts and what they are doing to overcome the challenges they face in successfully implementing these efforts.

The U.S. healthcare industry is rapidly moving away from traditional fee-for-service models and towards value-based purchasing that reimburses physicians for quality of care in place of frequency of care.